In his speech, Foucault eloquently praised the responsibilities of"international citizenship,” which, he claimed, “implies a commitment to rise up against any abuse of power, whoever its ...

The recent publication Confessions of the Flesh, the English translation of a previously unavailable volume of Foucault’s four-part History of Sexuality, offers an opportunity to see his ideas ...

To the Editor: Richard Wolin’s “Foucault the Neohumanist?” (The Chronicle Review, September 1) was news indeed. It turns out that the Foucauldian classics — Discipline and Punish, The ...

Foucault's conception of "power/knowledge" proposes the latter two concepts are inextricable. Medical classification and social exclusion, he argued across several works, have long gone hand in hand.

For Foucault, the concept of politics - and that of action in a biopolitical context - radically differs both from the conclusions of Max Weber and his epigones of the nineteenth century, and from ...

Foucault saw that knowledge and power are the same thing. Social media (and now AI) are seductions to knowledge. They give us the sense that we can become powerful through knowledge and stand in ...

One of Foucault’s key concepts, “biopolitics,” an account of the way that modern state power involves itself in the biological life of its citizens, was amply illustrated by the various ...

How have we been governed, regulated, ruled? What systems of knowledge and power have emerged over time, and with what consequences for individuals and populations? Lawrence Grossberg describes four ...

This paved the way for Foucault’s most influential argument, about the true nature of power. Power, he argued, is much more indirect than the top-down model traditionally taught in civics classes.

Michel Foucault in 1981. Alexis Duclos/AAP. The forms of power which operate in these institutions have eluded previous political analyses, Foucault claimed.